NOUN
- a common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally
How To Use Iris versicolor In A Sentence
- Herbs such as iris versicolor, mullein, red root bark, burdock, echinacea, cleavers, red clover, ginger, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, elder flower and yarrow are good lymph movers and detoxifiers.
- [273-2] The Creeks had, according to Hawkins, not less than seven sacred plants; chief of them were the cassine yupon, called by botanists _Ilex vomitoria_, or _Ilex cassina_, of the natural order Aquifoliaceæ; and the blue flag, _Iris versicolor_, natural order Iridaceæ. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America